An under-fire independence group has mocked claims £1.5m went missing as part of their doomed bid to win the 2014 referendum.
Yes Scotland’s first tweet in twelve years said the cash must have fallen down the back of a sofa and offered two mugs as a reward for finding the cash.
It comes after pro-independence activist David Henry made a police complaint about cash that was allegedly unaccounted for in the campaign group.
Yes Scotland was the official body for independence during the referendum and attracted millions of pounds in donations.
However, Yes Scotland has pushed back strongly against the allegations.
In a social media post at 9.05pm on Saturday night, the group said on X:
“It’s been a while. Some would say a generation or so ago. Woken up excited to hear that there is £1.5M missing. Must have been in the sofa given to a recycling charity after the referendum.
“Reward of two ‘Yes’ mugs to anyone with info leading to its recovery. DMs are open.”
It was Yes Scotland’s first X post since the day of the referendum in 2014.
Although Yes was legally separate from the SNP, the latter bailed out the former with an £825,000 transfer of funds.
The row blew up in the wake of former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell pleading guilty to embezzling over £400,000 of party funds between 2010 and 2022.
Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband was jailed for over five years last month.
Murrell had no formal role in Yes Scotland, but former campaign group figure Ian Dommett recently claimed the crook controlled YS.
At a press conference last week, Henry said he handed in “detailed evidence” to detectives, including email exchanges and Yes Scotland documents already in the public domain.
On top of his claim that £1.5m is missing, he raised questions about what happened to a £3.5m donation by the Weir family to Yes Scotland during the referendum, and called for scrutiny of the £825,000 bailout.
The 61 year old also claimed there are questions on whether Yes Scotland breached their official spending limits.
“The bottom line is it doesn’t add up,” he said. “We need all the accounts opened up.”
He added: “You do not have to be Columbo to spot the unaccountable sums of money.”
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He said: “It’s now up to the police to take that evidence and test it themselves.”